Yesterday, I cut down (and cut up) a couple red elm trees at a horse ranch, it was sunny and quite windy and 80ºF. There are many standing dead trees mixed with live trees that need to be saved, in this woods, and it is a thick woods and lots of tall grass, like 3 feet tall grass, that seems to wrap around my legs and trip me up. I haven't cut wood "in the wild" for many years...I've been lucky to cut trees in town or at a municipal compose site (gravel yard).
Anyway, WOW, what a lot of work it was to get that tree down and cut up and loaded into my trailer, which I couldn't get the trailer too close to the site due to obstacles (I wish I brought my ATV), and then have to deal with all the brush, while wading through 3' tall grass.
After I finished cleaning up the brush from those two trees, I thanked the land owner, and told them it was just too much work for the amount of wood, so I won't be cutting anymore. Plus I ain't in the best shape to do that hard work anymore. This morning, my knees are killing me...So I probably won't be unloading the trailer until tomorrow morning.